Clysterizing apparatus.



A. G. ANDERSON. GLYSTERIZING APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED OUT. 25, 1911.

Patented Apr. 16, 1912.

ANTON G. ANDERSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CLYSTERIZING- APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 16, 1912.

Application filed October 25, 1911. Serial N 0. 656,629.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTON G. ANDnnsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clysterizing Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide, for convenient self-use or application by a medical or other attendant, a novel construction of clysterizing apparatus, whereby the liquid employed may be pumped into the person and, if desired, withdrawn by the pump together with the fecal matter into a suitable receptacle to enable scientific investigation of such matter to be made.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates my invention as embodied in a construction of apparatus which is the best now known to me and has proved sat-isfactorily operative in use, Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the apparatus in its condition for use; and Fig. 2 is an enlarged View in sectional elevation of the pump-device.

The pump-device 3 comprises, as its essential parts, a receiving head for the liquid to be used adapted to be connected with a clyster-pipe, and a suitable force-pump working in the head. The head is shown in its preferred form of a funnel 4 alfording at its discharge-outlet 5 adjacent to the junction with the spout 6, a plug-seat, and provided with a bearing-strip 7 extending centrally across the mouth of the funnel. The pump 8 shown is constructed like an ordinary syringe with a tapering plug 9 on the distal end of the barrel 10 to removably fit the seat 5 and open and shut off the flow through the funnel; the barrel containing a piston 11 on the inner end of a rod 12 working through a cap 13 on the barrel and terminating at its outer end in a ring 14. The barrel is provided with a circumferential flange 15 in proper position to seat it in the bearing, and thereby introduce the plug 9 into its seat 5, the bearing being provided with a pivotal curved clamp 16 for releasably fastening the barrel in place. A clyster-pipe 17, with comparatively large openings 18 in its discharge-end, is connected with the spout 6 by a flexible tube 19, preferably of rubber and provided in two sections connected by a tubular metal joint 20 of T-shape with another flexible tube 21 attached at one end to the stem of the metal joint and provided at its opposite end with a tubular nipple 22 fitting in a ventopening formed lengthwise through a cork 23 or stopper adapted to fit the neck of a receptacle 24, such as a glass jug or bottle. The

stopper 23 should have connected with it, as by a cord 25, another stopper 26, like the stopper 23 but imperforate, for sealing the contents of the receptacle 24: after disconnecting the clysterizing apparatus therefrom; and the tube 21 carries a clamp 27, to serve as a valve for shutting off and opening communication of the receptacle 2a with the pumping device.

The apparatus preferably includes a support therefor, shown at 28, to be formed of two sections 29 and 30, which may be strips of sheet-metal, hinged together end to end to adapt them to be folded, the section 29 being bent to a right-angle near its outer end to form a flange 31 which contains a slot 32 in which to support the pump-device 3; and the section 30 is provided between its ends with a guide-loop 33 for the tube 19 and is shaped to form a species of seat for the person being clysterized to ex tend backwardly beyond the point of insertion of the pipe 17 and causing the seated position to retain the inserted pipe in place during the use of the apparatus. Moreover, the construction of the support adapts it to be folded into compact condition for carrying the apparatus about, as in a physicians satchel.

With the apparatus in the condition of the parts shown in Fig. 1 and the pipe 17 inserted for use, the operator unseats the plug 9 and withdraws the piston 11 to its outermost position in the barrel 10. Thereupon the liquid (which may be suitably medicated) to be used for the clysterizing purpose, is poured in suitable quantity into the receiving-head. The plug 9 is then seated and the piston is moved inwardly to force the liquid. The described operation may be repeated as often as desired before removing the pipe 17. If it be desired to effect the discharge of the fecal matter into a receptacle 24, the clamp 27 is adjusted to open the tube 21, and such discharge may be effected by pulling the piston outwardly to exert a suction-action and resultant withdrawal of the liquid and matter with it by way of the pipe 17, tube-section connected therewith and tube 21.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a clysterizing apparatus, the combination of a funnel provided with a central bearing, a clyster-pipe having a tube-connection with the funnel-spout, and a syringelike pump releasably supported at its barrel in said bearing and provided on its inner end with a plug removably seating in the funnel at the junction of its spout and when seated permanently closing the pump to the body of the funnel for the purpose set forth.

2. A clysterizing apparatus comprising, in

combination, a pump-holding funnel having a tubular clyster-pipe connection with its spout, a branch-tube joined at one end to said connection and provided with means for opening and closing the passage through it, and a portable seat formed of folding sections and forming a support for the funnel with said connection and branch-tube, for the purpose set forth.

ANTON G. ANDERSON. In the presence of- A. U. THQRIEN, R. A. SoI-IAEFER.

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